Most collaboration solutions for Retail involve the use of mobile devices so that the Store Manager is able to interact with customers rather be bound behind his desk. However a lot of Retail organizations are concerned about the theft of these mobile...

I have worked with SourceCode for over 4 years and have been always impressed by their workflow solutions and the awesome team. I have had an opportunity to team up with them several times over the last few years. K2.net delivers powerful BPM capabilities...

Live Meeting gives you the power to work together with colleagues, customers, and suppliers, no matter where you are. For online meetings, training, and events, Live Meeting is the effective meeting solution that enables you to collaborate with either...

eWeek has an interesting article about the challenges that manufacturers have in using granular POS data that provides store-level insights about product movement and shopper behavior. Click here.
"... It's clear that the sharing of more granular store...

One of the key operational challenges a retail organization faces is ensuring consistent execution across stores. Today, many retailers distribute key dates for events and promotions through a manual, labor intensive process. As a result, calendar administrators...

The Dashboard spy listed a pretty interesting Dashboard on Retail Store Operations . You can see a demo of the dashboard at CLICK HERE .
Dashboard/Portal/Workbench information from Microsoft:
Store Workbench Solution for the Retail Industry ...

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I love the updates on Windows Live Local , especially the traffic updates for several cities.
Other updates:
Collections Keep lists of important locations, order them any way you want, and share them with friends. To view great sample collections...

PayPal today introduced PayPal Mobile, a text message-based service allowing consumers in the US and Canada to send money anytime, from anywhere, using their mobile telephones.
With PayPal Mobile, users can send money, purchase items or donate to charities...

Interesting look at possibilites for theft prevention of mobile devices in Retail Stores:
"... Another IT manager, Schon Crouse, mobility integration analyst at Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said in an interview that laptops with embedded...

"There is a danger for a CIO to be seen as being too much associated with just technology," Jewett (Joshua Jewett, CIO at Family Dollar, a Matthews, N.C.-based retail chain) said. "Technology rarely delivers a return on investment [ROI] on its own. The...

Telephia , the leading provider of performance measurement information to the mobile industry, reports that mobile data usage, such as text and multimedia messaging, mobile Web, and downloads, has reached the 50 percent adoption mark in Q4 2005, rising...

Evaluate the next release of Microsoft Office products for testing and planning purposes with 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2. The beta release contains all the functionality of the regular release, but is not the final product.
Beta Download:...

You can now upload videos directly from your phone or PDA to YouTube. All you need is a mobile device that can take video and send MMS messages, and an Internet access or data plan from your service provider. We currently support uploads from Cingular...

I think podcasting via phone has a huge potential for communication in situations where access to PCs in limited. In my personal pursuit for adventure I can see it useful for blogging while out hiking the cascades, riding the RSVP to Vancouver, sailing...

RFID in Retail : This white paper provides a general introduction to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and discusses the benefits and challenges of this technology for organizations that are involved in the production, movement, or sale...

The Extended Retail Industry, a key theme of this year’s Retail Systems, highlights the integral relationship between suppliers and retailers and ultimately the consumer. Retailers are extending their definition of the retail enterprise to include their...

Podcasting is similar in nature to RSS, which allows subscribers to subscribe to a set of feeds to view syndicated Web site content. With podcasting however, you have a set of subscriptions that are checked regularly for updates and instead of reading...

I did a test run of the new GPS capabilities of MapPoint 2006 this morning and was pretty impressed with the voice-prompted driving directions . MapPoint 2006 with GPS Locator combines complete business mapping and analysis software with the latest Global...

One of the technologies that I explored last weekend for the Retail Industry, was AJAX. In the world of Web development, the set of technologies available to create client-server communication and rich UI is collectively known as AJAX , for Asynchronous...

Last weekend I tried out the Expression suite of products and was pretty impressed ... well VERY impressed with what you can do with it. Install on my tablet pc was a breeze. The Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer (March 2006 CTP) and Microsoft Expression...

Ive been doing some research on Executive Dashboards today and came across quite an array of interesting information. Im building a proof of concept dashbboard using Sharepoint 2007 and was exploring the possibility of using some of the gauge controls...

In addition to mobile access to Sharepoint lists, customers in the retail space will find the "design once" capability of InfoPath forms a useful feature.
A forms designer will use Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 to create a forms solution which then...

One of the big challenges in the retail space has been the minimal use of computers on the store floor. With the new capability of viewing Sharepoint (MOSS 2007) based information on a Pocket PC or smartphone, it is now possible for a Store Manager to...